460 EXTINCT AND VANISHING MAMMALS 



De Beaux (1932, p. 9) expresses concern for its future. 



According to Colosi (1933, pp. 39, 85), it still lives in the wild 

 state in Sardinia; it is also widespread and rather abundant in 

 Corsica, although pitiless hunting has decimated the herds in the 

 wooded zone of medium altitude. 



It inhabits the public forests and certain other areas, but is 

 not numerous and is decreasing. It will be protected in the Sar- 

 dinian National Park now under preparation. (Laboratorio di 

 Zoologia Applicata a Caccia, in litt., September, 1936.) 



McNeill's Deer. Macneillshirsch (Ger.) 



CERVUS MACNEILLI Lydekker 



Cervus. cashmirianus macneili [sic] Lydekker, Abstr. Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, no. 71, p. 26, 1909. ("Sze-chuen.") 

 Cervus cashmirianus macneilli Lydekker, Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1909, 



p. 590, pi. 69, 1909. ("Sze-chuen." The type locality has been subsequently 



restricted: "Tibetan side of the border" (Lydekker, 1911a, p. 987); "Sze- 



chuan border of Tibet" (Lydekker, 1915, vol. 4, p. 145); "near Litang" 



(Brooke Dolan, II, MS., 1938).) 



SYNONYM: Cervus canadensis wardi Lydekker (1911). 

 FIGS.: Lydekker, 1909, pi. 69; Lydekker, 1911a, p. 988, fig. 143; China Jour., vol. 



25, no. 5, pi. facing p. 288, 1936; Engelmann, 1938, pis. 18-20; G. M. Allen, 



1939a, pi. 23. 



This little-known deer of the Chino-Tibetan borderland, much 

 persecuted for the sake of its horns, it is believed by Brooke 

 Dolan, II, to be rapidly approaching extinction. 



The general color of the female is pale speckled French gray, 

 somewhat darker on the back and more so on the head ; the white of 

 the hindquarters restricted to the back of the hams; tail almost 

 wholly black above ; a blackish brown patch on the croup ; ears and 

 muzzle similar to those of Cervus wallichi affinis. Antlers 6-tined, 

 terminal fork comparatively narrow. (Lydekker, 1915, vol. 4, p. 145, 

 and 1911a, pp. 988-989.) 



"The winter pelage as represented by Mr. Dolan ? s skins, seems 

 grayer [than the summer pelage of the type] , with a brownish wash 

 on the back, the throat and sides of the neck a mixed gray. The 

 white pygal area is as narrow as in the summer condition. ... In 

 adult males both brow and bez tines are long and well developed, 

 with a light upward curvature ; the course of the main beam is then 

 upward and outward, as seen from in front, until the trez tine is 

 reached, situated on the outer side of the beam. ... At this point 

 the main beam turns decidedly inward." It "forks in such a way 

 that there is an anterior and a posterior tine, . . . while a third one 

 arises on the outer side." (G. M. Allen, 1939a, pp. 283-284.) 



